Hongkongers should avoid making non-essential trips to southeastern areas of Myanmar, the Security Bureau has said in issuing a red travel alert, while a top official has met the country’s consul general in the city to follow up on a resurgence of job scams. The bureau said on Friday travellers needed to adjust plans and…
The Hong Kong government has escalated its travel warning for south-eastern Myanmar to a ‘significant threat’ level due to recent incidents involving Hong Kong residents. These cases involve individuals reportedly being coerced into unauthorized work activities in the region, prompting the government to issue warnings. A government spokesman emphasized that residents should reconsider their…
The Hong Kong government has heightened its travel alert for the southeastern parts of Myanmar, categorizing the region as a ‘significant threat’ due to suspicions that Hong Kong residents are being attracted there under false pretenses and detained for illegal activities. A government spokesman urged citizens to amend their travel plans and steer clear…
Text size A major Myanmar ethnic rebel group has sent a delegation to China for talks with its government, its spokesman told AFP on Monday, as Beijing looks to end fighting along its southern border. A delegation from the Kachin Independence Army (KIA) had left on Sunday “for talks with the Chinese government” at China’s…
SANYA, China, Dec. 6, 2024 /PRNewswire/ — Yin Min Htwe, a former civil servant in Myanmar, is currently pursuing her academic career in China as an assistant researcher at the Coconut Research Institute of the Chinese Academy of Tropical Agricultural Sciences (CRICATAS). Based in Sanya, a coastal city in Hainan in south China, she calls…
WASHINGTON — Offers from two armed resistance groups in Myanmar to participate in Chinese-brokered peace talks with the ruling junta are seen by analysts as the result of mounting pressure from Beijing and unlikely to end the wider insurgency. The Ta’ang National Liberation Army (TNLA) credited China’s mediation efforts when it announced its readiness for…
VIENTIANE, LAOS — Southeast Asian defense chiefs met Thursday with their counterparts from China, the United States and other nations in Laos for security talks, which come as Beijing’s increasingly assertive stance in its claim to most of the South China Sea is leading to more confrontations. The closed-door talks put U.S. Secretary of Defense…
The Economist Nov 17, 2024 08:00 AM IST It is the first visit since he staged a coup four years ago Few national leaders are as unwelcome abroad as Senior General Min Aung Hlaing, the leader of the military junta which seized power in Myanmar in 2021. Even North Korea’s Kim Jong Un gets the…
Fewer Westerners are working in major Chinese cities as high-paying jobs dry up amid slow economic growth, with living costs and China’s geopolitical tensions with the West also taking their toll. But some of those gaps are being filled by professionals from Southeast Asia, as foreign firms increasingly turn to local or regional talent. Census…
Myanmar’s ethnic groups fighting to oust the junta criticized China for hosting military chief Min Aung Hlaing in the country this week, and said India has reached out for talks with the shadow government and some armed rebels. The National Unity Government and ethnic armed groups held a joint virtual press conference on Tuesday, where…